Originally Posted by
Jubblin
i have to pay like $92 for a 20% tint ticket. cop measured front windows 19% and back windows 3% theres a huge diffrence between those two. i took it to the window tint shop and it measured 20% all around..was it fucked with?
Most car's come with a small amount of tint (usually it's the actual window) so that if you get a 35% tint applied, it's actually more like 33-32%. Not sure if you measured it with a light meter, either way you are way out of legal limits for tint.
I got a tint ticket the 1st day I came to virginia (even though the car isn't from Virginia), so I looked into the law for it. The side windows are the ones that are a problem, even though the cop usually tells you that you can't have tint anywhere on the car. your tint is way too dark for this to help you, but unlike how cops like to tell people, window tinting is legal in Virginia.
3. Except as provided in § 46.2-1053, but notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, no sun-shading or tinting film may be applied or affixed to any window of a motor vehicle unless such motor vehicle is equipped with a mirror on each side of such motor vehicle, so located as to reflect to the driver of the vehicle a view of the highway for at least 200 feet to the rear of such vehicle, and the sun-shading or tinting film is applied or affixed in accordance with the following:
1. No sun-shading or tinting films may be applied or affixed to the rear side windows or rear window or windows of any motor vehicle operated on the highways of this Commonwealth that reduce the total light transmittance of such window to less than thirty-five percent;
2. No sun-shading or tinting films may be applied or affixed to the front side windows of any motor vehicle operated on the highways of this Commonwealth that reduce total light transmittance of such window to less than fifty percent;
3. No sun-shading or tinting films shall be applied or affixed to any window of a motor vehicle that (i) have a reflectance of light exceeding twenty percent or (ii) produce a holographic or prism effect.